than on helping patients stay healthy and get better.andmedicarehasdone a terrible job of that over the years in terms of paying for preventive services has not done that over the years. this is -- it is now december and the way the system is broken is, my busiest time as a surgeon in wyoming is at the end of the year, people who met their deductibles, who have insurance, come into the office and say it's time for my operation, i have to get it done before the first of the year because of my -- my -- my deductible. it has been used up. and i want to have my operation that i'm not going to have to pay for. we have the incentives all wrong, mr. president, in this country in terms of health care. so we do not health care reform. but i don't think this bill is the way to do it, which is a government takeover of the government system in america. mr. baucus: mr. president, i've got to address that one. my colleagues want to speak. i think it's worth repeating over and over and over again. this legislation is designed to retain uniquely american solution to health care, roughly half publi